Five dogs will help search for people who may be buried alive under tons of rubble from a deadly 7.9 earthquake in Nepal. Pluis Davern of Sundowners Kennels trained the highly skilled dogs for years in Gilroy. VIDEO: Watch the story here"Those disaster search dogs are going to be incredibly helpful. They cover terrain that we as humans never can, and pinpoint where potentially people who are still alive are buried," Davern said.The disaster search dogs are trained to bark only if it smells the scent of a live person. "It's electrifying, because there is a chance to save somebody who otherwise, potentially, would never be found," Davern said.Davern said the dogs will remain in Nepal for as long as they are needed. PHOTOS: Aftershocks, aftermath in NepalMore than 4,600 people died and 9,000 were injured when the huge earthquake struck the Himalayan nation on Saturday. One million children are urgently in need of help.Nepal quake: Woman saved from rubble after 36 hours (CNN) - Heartbreaking scenes of suffering and loss are playing out across this shell-shocked nation as it reels from its deadliest natural disaster in more than 80 years.Kathmandu is a city with few good stories right now, but Tanka Maya Sitoula has one of them. The 40-year-old mother-of-four was at home when Saturday's deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck, bringing the 5-story building down around her ground floor apartment.In the wake of the disaster, which has left at least 4,500 people dead across Nepal, Sitoula endured 36 long hours trapped in a room on the ground floor, before she was freed by an Indian rescue team.How you can help: Aid for Nepal earthquake victimsRemarkably, she escaped without injury, apparently protected by a beam.Sitoula, who talked to CNN through an interpreter, says she remained confident she would survive throughout her ordeal amid the rubble."I heard people making noise outside so I thought I would be rescued," she said, as she and her family sheltered in the grounds of a nearby school. "I was confident that everybody was there outside and that I would be rescued."It took 18 hours before the necessary help arrived, he said. And it took another 18 hours to free her.What did she do for 36 hours? "I was just lying down," she says. "There was no room to move here and there."

Five dogs will help search for people who may be buried alive under tons of rubble from a deadly 7.9 earthquake in Nepal. Pluis Davern of Sundowners Kennels trained the highly skilled dogs for years in Gilroy.

More than 4,600 people died and 9,000 were injured when the huge earthquake struck the Himalayan nation on Saturday. One million children are urgently in need of help.

Nepal quake: Woman saved from rubble after 36 hours

(CNN) - Heartbreaking scenes of suffering and loss are playing out across this shell-shocked nation as it reels from its deadliest natural disaster in more than 80 years.

Kathmandu is a city with few good stories right now, but Tanka Maya Sitoula has one of them. The 40-year-old mother-of-four was at home when Saturday's deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck, bringing the 5-story building down around her ground floor apartment.

In the wake of the disaster, which has left at least 4,500 people dead across Nepal, Sitoula endured 36 long hours trapped in a room on the ground floor, before she was freed by an Indian rescue team.

Remarkably, she escaped without injury, apparently protected by a beam.

Sitoula, who talked to CNN through an interpreter, says she remained confident she would survive throughout her ordeal amid the rubble.

"I heard people making noise outside so I thought I would be rescued," she said, as she and her family sheltered in the grounds of a nearby school. "I was confident that everybody was there outside and that I would be rescued."

It took 18 hours before the necessary help arrived, he said. And it took another 18 hours to free her.

What did she do for 36 hours? "I was just lying down," she says. "There was no room to move here and there."